Chris of Weekend Wisdom is joining me for a Florabunda mini-QAL and we're going to use only stash to do so... tho we may have to purchase a solid or solids for the lattice/ladder part.

We won't start until I finish my Cowabunga Florabunda and get it to the LAQ-er... so I'm thinking the end of September or the beginning of October. We are not setting any deadlines so who knows how long we will take. It's more about cheering each other on and having a good time.... and maybe seeing which of us has the ugliest floral in our respective stashes!

If you would like to join in the fun, let me know. The quilt is a good beginner pattern using two basic quilt blocks... a 4-patch and a HST. I can provide links to helpful online tutorials for making both of these blocks.

There won't be a ton of chain piecing (such I've been doing the past two weekends) because you make each block (5 four-patch units + 4 HST units) separately using the same background fabric for each block. This gives you that secondary layer for this quilt as well as a scrappy look.

You can make your Florabunda as big or as small as you'd like. If you'd like a border... or if you don't want a border... it's up to you! Pick whatever fabrics you'd like... retro, batiks, solids, prints, contemporary/modern, traditional... let your imagination and stash be your guide!

17 comments:

Is that wall of fabrics your stash? Yikes!If I didn't have a couple of other quilts that I have to get done I would join your quilt-along and make another one. It has been a fun quilt. You are right--it is easy, but it looks more involved than it really is. Nice quality in a quilt. : )Your mention of batiks is intriguing--that could be really nice. Arrrgh! Don't tempt me.I bought my dark border fabric today--RJR at $4 a yard on the clearance table. I have 3/4 of the top assembled now.

I already made mine! It is set 10 blocks by 11 blocks (90 x 99). I thought I had used up all my florals, but I found some fabrics from cleaning out the quilting/weaving stash that had belonged to both of my grandmothers and my mother. THere are genuine feedsacks, 50's, 60's, and more current florals in it! It will be going to the county fair next week and then right onto my bed.

Those quilts are gorgeous! I love yellow and I love scrappy! I may have to follow along in an unofficial way! (I am working on a custom quilt that I have to have finished by November and it has tons of hand applique!)I'm not sure I can do anything else!

Sounds like fun! I recognize the Jacob's Ladder pattern. My son's name is Jacob and I used it as one of the blocks in a sampler quilt I made for him a long time ago. But I didn't realize that putting them together made such a nice pattern. I would love to make one just from stash and if its small, I think I can manage that. It might make a nice gift for him. What size were you thinking of making?

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